AY 2023-2024 and Summer 2024 �պ��ֲ� Fellows and Interns

Student Faculty Research Grant

Fellow: Ava Biasotti, '26
Research Project: To identify an astrophysical counterpart to the neutrino, IceCube-221223A, detected in 2022. A potential counterpart, an active galaxy was detected and observed with multiwavelength observations
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Nathan Bukowski-Thall, '26
Research Project: Analyzing optical data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, focusing on high-redshift sources
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Anna Chen, '26
Research Project: Generalize earlier results on the precession of the orbits of primordial black holes inside neutron stars, so that they account for realistic equations of state
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Amanda Cooney, '26
Research Project: Understanding mechanisms of memory search using big data
Faculty Mentor: Abhilasha Kumar

Fellow: Nuanxi (Sissi) Feng, '24
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Jack Frohling, '26
Research Project: Physical modeling of jetted active galaxies
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Evan Lucca, '25
Research Project: A Geometric Approach to Computing Nash Equilibria in Network Games
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Ifran

Fellow: Luca Mckerley Coronado, '26
Research Project: Examining the Effect of the Spätzle-Toll Signaling Pathway on the Maintenance of the Deafferented Auditory Circuit
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Liz Perot, '26
Research Project: Analyzing IceCube cascade events and identifying potential X-ray counterparts
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Kevin Reeves, '26
Research Project: Spaetzle and Toll receptors effects on dendrite length and density in Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Zach Reynolds, '24
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Alec Rothkowitz, '26
Research Project: Study influence games literature and devise algorithms for efficient equilibria computation
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Ifran

Fellow: Emily Simons, '24
Research Project: Devise discretized approximation algorithms for approximate Nash equilibria computation in influence games and their generalizations. The summer research particularly aims to focus on general graphs with cycles
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Ifran

Fellow: Sadie Smith, '25
Research Project: Code and analyze data, and support some summer writing efforts as well (preparing conference proposals and/or reports)
Faculty Mentor: Alison Miller

Fellow: Catherine Benavides, '27
Research Project: IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) National Institutes of Health award
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Lily Curtis, '26
Research Project: IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) National Institutes of Health award
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Elijah Dumdie, '25
Research Project: Molecular Characterization of Toll/Spz Proteins in the Cricket
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Mya Grant, '26
Research Project: What Causes Increased Gene Expression on a Specific 96C Gene Location
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Dylan Herring, '27
Research Project: Researching the Role of srGAPs in Filopodia Development in the Henderson Lab
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Fellow: Gabe O'Brien, '26
Research Project: The visualization and characterization of homologous maternal effect genes in Bradysia coprophila
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Natalie Peralta, '26
Research Project: Determining the phospholipid binding specificity of srGAP membrane-binding proteins
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Fellow: Alicia Ross, '25
Research Project: The Influence of Toll-6.1 and Toll-6.2 Pathways in the Development of Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Ben Sachs, '26
Research Project: IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) National Institutes of Health award
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

�պ��ֲ� College Fellowships in the Life Sciences

Fellow: Aale Agans, '25
Research Project: Implementing DIPA-CRISPR in Bradysia coprophila for Affordable and Accessible Genetic Editing
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Eva Ahn, '26
Research Project: Local Adaptation and Parasite Tolerance in Daphnia Populations
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Fellow: Ellie Chan, '25
Research Project: Improving Understanding and Modeling of Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in Urban Spaces via Turfgrass Monitoring
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Stephanie Christianson, '26
Research Project: Effects of the plasticizer DBP on spinal locomotor activity through the lumbar CPG network and turmeric as a potential neuroprotective
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Tyler Deane, '25
Research Project: Evaluation of Rosmarinic Acid as a Neuroprotectant Against Dibutyl Phthalate
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Natalie Faillace, '26
Research Project: The causal role of theta oscillations in episodic memory
Faculty Mentor: Erike Nyhus

Fellow: Erik Infante, '26
Research Project: Plant fluorescence in relation to CO2 assimilation
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Ruth Olujobi, '25
Research Project: Accessing the molecular effects of Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) and rosmarinic acid in the mice spinal locomotor network
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Annabella Williams, '26
Research Project: New Forests: Investing In Our Land and Future
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Burns Fellowship

Fellow: Sam Bonauto, '25
Research Project: Development of a Backpack Sized Ratiometer to Determine Surface Fluxes of CO2 and O2
Faculty Mentor: Mark Battle

Fellow: Juan Diego DelPrado, '26
Research Project: Numerical simulations of primordial black holes and neutron stars/white dwarfs
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Benjamin Pinto Arroyo, '25
Research Project: Research on High Frequency IDTs and Sezawa Waves at Paul-Drude Institute
Faculty Mentor: Madeleine Msall

Fellow: Simon Thomas, '25
Research Project: Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen in Forests: Comparing Data from Harvard Forest and the WLEF Tower
Faculty Mentor: Mark Battle

Irma Cheatham Summer Research

Fellow: Gracie Loney, '25
Research Project: "Finding Community After the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre."
Faculty Mentor: Brian Purnell

James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship in Chemistry

Fellow: DK Kang, '25
Research Project: Examining uptake of fluorescent sugar probes in bacteria
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Anika Sen, '26
Research Project: Investigation of the Influence of Different Side Chains Surrounding the Thionated Residue on Peptoid Secondary Structure
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Cooke Environmental Research Fellowship

Fellow: Liliana Restrepo, '26
Research Project: Cooke Environmental Research Fellowship with Naugatuck Valley Health Department
Faculty Mentors: Mary Lou Zeeman

Fellow: Gabe Sarno, '25
Research Project: Cooke Environmental Research Fellowship with Shell+Claw
Faculty Mentors: Mary Rogalski

Theodore Samuel Danzig '22 Memorial Fellowship Fund

Fellow: Ari Bersch, '25
Research Project: When Populists Come to Power
Faculty Mentors: Henry Laurence

Denning Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Hanna Cha, '25

Fellow: Elizabeth Gill, '25

Fellow: Karen Gonzalez, '25

Fellow: Frances Hornbostel, '25

Fellow: Jingyuan Huang, '25

Fellow: Fatima Kunjo, '25

Fellow: Brian Liu, '25

Fellow: Ryan Ngo, '25

Fellow: Eleina Sturk, '25

Fellow: Ciara Tran, '24.5

Fellow: Alex Washburn, '25

Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Computer Science

Fellow: Justas Bardauskas, '27
Research Project: Using Satellite Imagery to Predict the Poverty Rate at a Given Location
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias

Fellow: Ulemj Munkhtur, '26
Research Project: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve the K-Means Clustering Algorithm
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias

Gibbons Summer Research Program

Fellow: Adam Carlisle, '25
Research Project: The Economic Impacts of Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water on Communities
Faculty Mentor: Erik Nelson

Fellow: Katherine Cheston, '25
Research Project: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum: Engaging High and Middle School Students with Virtual Lesson Plans
Faculty Mentors: Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine

Fellow: Matthew Goodman, '26
Research Project: Cultivating “Diverse” Student Bodies
Faculty Mentor: Ingrid Nelson

Fellow: Anneke Halliday, '25
Research Project: Dialogues in Afrolatinidad
Faculty Mentors: Michele Reid-Vazquez and Christian Puma Ninacuri

Fellow: Richard Lim, '27
Research Project: CompCog: Modeling Search within the Mental Lexicon
Faculty Mentor: Abhilasha Kumar

Fellow: Louisa Linkas, '26
Research Project: Mapping Damage of Winter Storms on the Maine Coast
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias

Fellow: Maya Tang, '27
Research Project: Measuring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence Technology on Employment and the Work Environment in the Legal Industry
Faculty Mentor: Tatyana Avilova

Global Citizens Fellowship

Fellow: Nate Berg, '27

Fellow: Mila Bonometti, '26

Fellow: Lex Davis, '26

Fellow: Jimmy Netherton, '26

Fellow: Luisa Wolcott-Breen, '25

Alfred E Golz Fellowship

Fellow: Kiana Gonzalez, '26
Research Project: A Narrative History of the Puerto Rican Healthcare System
Faculty Mentor: Javier Cikota

Fellow: Michael Gordon, '25
Research Project: The Pale in Comparison: The Bund, Nationalism, and Competing Visions of Turn-of-the-Century Jewish Emancipation
Faculty Mentor: Salar Mohandesi

Fellow: Jason Olaru-Hagen, '25
Research Project: The Legacy of the Ceausescu Dictatorship
Faculty Mentor: Salar Mohandesi

Kappa Psi Upsilon Maine Based Environmental Fellowship

Fellow: Issie Gale, '25

Fellow: Evan Grauer, '26

Fellow: Chase Lenk, '26

Fellow: Naomi Lopez, '26

Fellow: Eli Mears, '26

Fellow: Asher Savel, '26

Fellow: Chloe Sheahan, '26

Fellow: Zoe Stonorov, '25

Fellow: Selima Terras, '26

Fellow: Wren West, '25

Fellow: Justin Whitney, '25

Fellow: Eden Zumbrun, '26

William D. Littlefield Fund Fellowship

Fellow: Daniel Chi, '24
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Mohammed Chowdhury, '25
Research Project: Development of transition metal catalysts for renewable energy storage
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Sam Koegler, '26
Research Project: Exploring Positive Charges' Ability to Increase Chiral Peptoids' Enantioselectivity in Trifluoromethylation Reactions
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Pilar Saavedra-Weis, '25
Research Project: Examining Inhibition of Glycoprotein Biosynthesis by O-anthracene glycosides in Helicobacter pylori
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Maine Community Fellowship

Fellow: Nasra Abdirahman, '26

Fellow: Yasmine Biyashev, '26

Fellow: Caitlin Cowan, '26

Fellow: Mason Daugherty, '25

Fellow: Gary Hernandez, '27

Fellow: Yusur Jasim, '25

Fellow: Ben Johnson, '26

Fellow: Georgia Katkov, '26

Fellow: Sophia Poeschla, '26

Fellow: Ruby Pollack, '25

Fellow: Carolyne Sauda, '27

Fellow: Charlotte Sweet, '25

Dana Walker Mayo Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Gabriel Bloom-O'Sullivan, '25
Research Project: Characterizing the Role of Carboxylic Acid Substituents in the Photocatalytic Degradation of Ibuprofen Structural Variants
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Runqin Chen, '26
Research Project: The Effect of Cellulose Polymer Additives on Properties of Mefenamic acid/Nicotinamide Cocrystals
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Pranav Vadlamudi, '26
Research Project: Elucidating the Effects of Ionic Liquids on the Synthesis of Cobalt and Aluminum-Based Metal Organic-Frameworks (MOFs)
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

McKeen Center Washington, DC

Fellow: Jack Andrews, '25

Fellow: Violet Apodaca, '25

Fellow: Camille Beaulieu, '25

Fellow: Victor Ferreira Souza, '26

Fellow: Ruby Fyffe, '26

Fellow: Ange Ishimwe, '25

Fellow: Chelsea Moddy, '25

Fellow: Shivani Schmulen, '26

Fellow: Charlotte Tagupa, '26

Fellow: Eleanor Donahue, '25

Fellow: Rithmaka Karunadhara, '26

Fellow: Daniel Lee, '27

Fellow: Ashley Morash, '26

Fellow: Ben Weintraub, '26

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Fellow: Kirstin Hayes, '26

Fellow: Phoebe Marin, '26

Fellow: Kaavya Mundkur, '26

Fellow: Becca Silva, '26

Fellow: Julia Xiang-Wang, '26

Paller Neuroscience 2024-2025 Academic Year Fellowship

Fellow: Ephraim Boamah, '25
Research Project: Characterizing the effects of pre-natal exposure to plasticizer Dibutyl phthalate on motor activity in rat offspring
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Emma Gibbens, '25
Research Project: Establishing Directionality of Information Flow for Post-retrieval Monitoring in Episodic Memory
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Cassidy Scott, '25
Research Project: Identifying sexual dimorphism in epigenetic markers and behavior following Early Life Adversity and Acute Ketamine Treatment
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Matilda and John Riley Research Award

Fellow: Moana Gregori, '26
Research Project: Investigating the effect of microfinance programs on revitalizing Assam’s Muga silk weaving culture by enhancing weavers’ self-efficacy
Faculty Mentor: Krista Van Vleet

Fellow: Hamda Hussein, '25
Research Project: AI Perpetuates Inequality Experienced by People of Color
Faculty Mentor: Oyman Basaran

Fellow: Avery Leisle, '25
Research Project: “Education is the Most Important Thing”: Lessons in Empowering New Mainers
Faculty Mentor: Krista Van Vleet

Fellow: Anya Workman, '25
Research Project: Plants and People: Ethnography on Two Rural Minnesota Farms
Faculty Mentor: Willi Lempert

Jasper Jacob Stahl Fellowship for the Study of Mediterranean Antiquity

Fellow: Gianna Turk, '24
Research Project: Living Latin in Rome - Paideia Institute
Faculty Mentor: Robert Sobak

Allen Wells Travel & Research Award

Fellow: Kaitlyn Brunner, '25
Research Project: Environmental Exploitation in Vaca Muerta: Exploration of the Pampa and Argentina Environmental Imaginations
Faculty Mentor: Carolyn Wolfernzon

Fellow: Catalina Dezha, '25
Research Project: Changing the Meaning
Faculty Mentor: Jay Sosa

Fellow: Anneke Halliday, '25
Research Project: Understanding Cultural Competence in Mobile Unit Healthcare for Migrant Workers in Maine

Fellow: Zerimar Ramirez, '25
Research Project: The Historical Process of National Identity: anti-Haitianism and the Dominican Archives in the Independence Period
Faculty Mentor: Irina Popescu

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